First of all, this was made personal when you directly attacked me and said I do not know how to care for my monitors. I'm going to set this straight and tell you that I'm on here to better mine and other's keeping experiences. Secondly, we should keep in mind that this conversation is directed towards SAVANNAH MONITORS - V EXANTHEMATICUS. I have no doubt in your ability to breed other monitors, as you clearly have all the experience and knowledge in the world(I mean only the first part of that statement). And I do commend you on your ability to admit your wrong. That obviously isn't in your fault to be wrong. Where your fault lies is to not strive to better and correct where you have gone wrong. You say that diet has a substantial amount to do with the ability for any animal to reproduce, a clear contradiction to when you stated that the issue is more rather an under metabolized monitor than a malnourished monitor - correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I understood from your post. You have yet to tell me why an INVERTEBRATE - NOT PURELY INSECT - diet is insufficient when that is what they have reportedly fed on in the wild OTHER than the fact that the keeper is far too LAZY to procure the foods deem-ably healthy and correct for the Savannah monitor, since we agree that it is in the best for the monitor to attempt to mimic what their lives would be like in the wild, except in a box. Acquirable invertebrates can and SHOULD include everything from large aquatic mystery snails or land snails, crayfish or crab, large cockroaches, possibly even giant millipedes(though personally I've never attempted breeding them, I have heard of a few people starting to), grasshoppers, locusts, and whole bodied shrimp. Dusted with a good vitamin, there is no reason why a responsible owner shouldn't be able to provide for you evidence of a well-fed, and active monitor. Like I said, I myself feed the above exclusively to both of my Savannah monitors, and they are handsome fellows.

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